Online casinos and poker

The Fat Man’s erratic luck was in yesterday: the gambler who for years has won and lost on an epic scale in London’s casinos gained the right to appeal against a £2m debt run up in one spectacularly unsuccessful night seven years ago.

In spring the high court ruled that Fouad al-Zayat must pay his gambling losses, and the rapidly escalating legal bill of the private members’ club Aspinalls, after a dispute which has rumbled on since the Syrian-born millionaire stopped a cheque over a game which he thought unfair.